The second issue we wanted to figure out a public opinion for was in what ways we should be allowed to modify organisms. In our survey we had 4 questions each tackling a different situation to see how people agreed with the used of genetic modification to solve the problem. Questions 4,6 and 7 showed a majority of agreement with 75%, 72.5% and 85% respectively of slight agreement or strong agreement. In contrast however, question 5 only had a 25% agreement rate with 0% of the voters strongly agreeing. Based on this data it seems that people agree with genetically modifying in situations in which there is a problem that needs to be solved but are reluctant in situations in which there is no urgent need to change something. This could potentially be due peoples uncertainty on what all of the side effects of modifying these organisms are. In situations such as question 4,6 and 7 were the effects that these modifications provide is the prevention of human deaths most people are fairy comfortable to accept potential side effects, however in situations such as question 5 were the outcome does not provide some major benefit such as saving human lives, people are much less willing to accept the side effects.
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